Serious Lack of Quake II Source Ports

[Baker]

shit - i forgot to remove the fps display for release. There's always something.

[Syluxguy28O3]

Shit - I forgot to remove the FPS display for release. There's always something.

ha, no sweat!

Pretty sure that Q2 has cvarlist and cmdlist available, and use r_uiscale for the HUD size.

thanks for the help!

[WhiteMagicRaven]

need help in original q2 source code, how to fix HUD so it will be autoscaled always, at any resolution it will looks like at 320x200.
So its one or two lines i guess, should be easy? where it controls?
like hexen2 with -scale2d option
glh2.exe -scale2d

[IronWarfare]

Nobody mentioned Quake2 Berserker? That's the best port if you want Q2 with better graphics, hd textures, nice effects, lights, bumpmapping etc...is almost the "darkplaces of Q2". Mandatory!

[Korax]

I know the topic is a bit old. I do have a UQE Quake 2 in the works, but progress is slow as I don't have much spare time. I do however think I'll have it ready for its initial release later during this year.

At the moment it features widescreen support upto 1920x1080 with automatic FOV adjustment and the software renderer is dumped in favour of the default OpenGL renderer. At the moment its still an external DLL, but that might change during the course of its development.

Its pretty stable sofar; Me and some friends have been Coop'ing it a few months ago and finished the whole game without any incident.

Don't expect realtime lighting or any such flashy features as the entire UQE project is mostly based upon introducing minimal features, just enough to make it feel new but not enough to change the gaming experience or the originality of the game.

[KillPixel]

Don't expect realtime lighting or any such flashy features as the entire UQE project is mostly based upon introducing minimal features, just enough to make it feel new but not enough to change the gaming experience or the originality of the game.

I will definitely be checking this out.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

So there is complete list of Quake2 Engines? Anyone know more?

Quake 2 XP (Quake II XP)
[email protected]
AprQ2
BeefQuake
Knightmare's Quake2 (KMQuake2)
Quake2Max
EGL
Quake 2 Graphics Mod (Q2GM)
Quake II Evolved
Roach QUAKE
R1Q2
Jim�s QUAKE 2 page
aRQ-Lite2
Q2:ICE
FTEQW
DirectQ2
UQE Quake II

[golden_boy]

YamagiQ2. And a bit of stuff by QuDos. And icculus Quake 2.

[Spiney]

Kmquake2 is probably the best all around engine for singleplayer I've tested. I don't like how busy the gui looks though, but that can be tweaked. Probably shouldn't say that since I've contributed replacement art for it
Mh's latest is very nice also. I'm not a big fan of the replacement engines since they tend to have a cheap plastic cg look.

[WhiteMagicRaven]

In future jlQuake can appear supporting quake2 too

[hgdagon]

I prefer
[email protected]
KMQuake II
Q2 Evolved

They work great with high res textures and the overall athmosphere реtained....

[hgdagon]

UQE Quake II

??? Is there a link?

[WhiteMagicRaven]

??? Is there a link?

=) This is Future project planned by Korax
Also there is q2bsp viewer done by Korax using C# (not hosted anymore)
http://heretics-hexens.ucoz.com/quake/q2bspxna.zip

Q2Pro

[Korax]

UQE Quake II is almost ready for release within the next week or two!

Like all the other engine mods in the UQE family, its a purist engine with absolute minimal changes.

Of the most notable changes are the addition of HD resolutions upto 1920x1080 with automatic FOV calculation (fixed). Video playback is now correctly adjusted according to the video's variable aspect ratio taking into consideration the current video resolution.

The engine also detects if your GPU supports non-power-2 and if it does it won't attempt to try and re-sample textures, very notable with the Quake 2 intro.

It features OGG support with the ability to adjust sfx and music volume separately.
The 2D art (like menus etc) scales up and down automatically based upon the current screen resolution.

It also fixes a multitude of tiny bugs and tweaks.

EDIT:
The Microsoft XNA Quake II Renderer will soon be uploaded to my github repo.

[KillPixel]

Sweet! Can't wait to try it out... I've never played QII with music before, or the mission packs for that matter.